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Madison Metropolitan School District

Southside Elementary School Naming Process

Outcome

At its Feb. 24, 2025, regular meeting, the MMSD Board of Education voted 6-0 (with one recusal) to name the school in honor of Lori Mann Carey. The building's new name will go into effect for the 2025–26 school year.

Sincere thanks to all who volunteered their time, effort and energy to helping establish the school's permanent identity—everyone who submitted a proposal and offered feedback, all of the members of the ad hoc committee, MMSD staff and, of course, the Board of Education. Your contributions to this process were invaluable.

Background

Thanks to the community’s investment in our public schools during the 2020 referendum, the district constructed a new elementary school connected to Badger Rock Middle School. The new school, which opened fall 2023, has temporarily been called Southside Elementary. 

This web page was created to keep the community informed of our work as we progressed through the naming process for the new elementary school in the Rimrock area.

Public input

Public input is no longer being accepted, as the process has concluded and the new name chosen.

Meeting Notice

Ad Hoc Committee meeting dates/times, agendas and minutes are published on BoardDocs.

View meeting agendas and notices

Meetings are also broadcast on the Board of Education's YouTube channel.

Watch meetings on YouTube

Naming Proposals Under Consideration

  • Proposal Submission Window (Original): 8 a.m. February 7, 2023 through 8 a.m. March 9, 2023. 
  • Additional Submission Opportunity: 8 a.m. April 16, 2024 through 10 p.m. April 30, 2024.
  • All 175 naming proposals are available online at BoardDocs.

The proposals below are in ranked order:
 

Naming Updates